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January 25, 2006
Storage Space: Holographic Storage at Turner Entertainment
Step aside Blue Rays and HD-DVDs... Holographic storage will blow us away:
From a Computerworld article:
“The holographic disk promises to retail for $100, and by 2010, it will have capacity of 1.6TB each. That’s pretty inexpensive,� said Ron Tarasoff, vice president of broadcast technology and engineering at Turner Entertainment. “Even this first version can store 300GB per disk, and it has 160MB/sec. data throughput rates. That’s burning. Then combine it with random access, and it’s the best of all worlds.�
more... (useful numbers)
Some useful numebers:
Turner Entertainment:200,000+ movies
25,000+ commercials
49,000+ promotional spots
Current Storage Solution:Digital tape libraries from Storage Technology Corp. as well as a caching system of disk arrays.
Current N/W data rate capacity:The company now has 96 1Gbit/sec. Ethernet connections
Future:it plans to upgrade those to 10Gbit/sec. streams in the near future
The Vendors
DHD called 'Tapestry' by InPhase Technologies, Inc. (Longmont Colorado)
Optware corp, Japan
Raving:
Tarasoff (Turner person) said InPhase’s hardware performed flawlessly, feeding a promotional spot to its networks about as quickly as its tape library system does. “Their production version promises to be much faster than tape, but we’ve not seen that yet,� Tarasoff said.
Posted by rdivecha at January 25, 2006 02:34 PM